Person profile: 盛丽 / Sheng Li
This archive collects the published records documenting the case of 盛丽 (Sheng Li), a Falun Gong practitioner and businesswoman from Shenzhen sentenced in May 2024 to four years in prison. Sources are graded; facts are presented as reported, not as independently verified findings.
Case chronology
- August 2019 — Begins practicing Falun Gong.
- May 2020 — Detained by Bao’an district police after speaking about Falun Gong in public; held at the Bao’an detention center.
- May 18, 2021 — Sentenced by the Nanshan District Court to one year and five months in prison and a 2,000-yuan fine.
- June 19, 2023 — Criminally detained after giving a Falun Gong periodical to a middle-school student who reported her; held at the Bao’an Jiuwei Detention Center.
- May 13, 2024 — Tried and sentenced to four years in prison; charge and serving facility not publicly confirmed; term to June 18, 2027.
- August 31, 2026 — Listed as an in-custody political prisoner in the “Sentenced to 4 years, 171 people” group of the Rights Defense Network monthly report.
Published source records
- Minghui (明慧网) (Falun Gong–affiliated news outlet), “炼功获新生 深圳市女企业家盛丽被枉判四年” (July 27, 2024) — reports: a 48-year-old Shenzhen Bao’an woman, from Dalian, entrepreneur; detained June 19, 2023 after the student reported her; held at the Bao’an Jiuwei detention center; tried May 13, 2024 and sentenced to four years (judge Zhang Guohui, prosecutor Zhao Dan); prior 1-year-5-month sentence on May 18, 2021; began practicing Falun Gong in August 2019. Its “wrongful verdict” framing and the judge/prosecutor names are not independently verified. Opened and read in full. Original article.
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders — Prisoners of Conscience database (recognized human-rights NGO), individual record for 盛丽 — confirms: female, born 1976; taken 2023.6.19; charge unknown; four-year sentence; term to 2027.6.18; location unknown; the database’s English rendering “Cheng Li” is a romanization variant of Sheng Li. Database search page.
- Rights Defense Network (维权网) (rights monitoring organization), Issue 131 monthly in-custody report, August 31, 2026 — lists 盛丽 / “Sheng Li” in the 4-year, 171-person sentence group, classified in custody.
Disambiguation record (do not merge)
施凤香 (Shi Fengxiang) — a Harbin Falun Gong practitioner sentenced to nine years in 2018 — and 施德来 (Shi Delai) — the Hong Kong 47-person-case defendant — are different people despite the similar surnames. The 李升星 / Li Shengxing, 李庆生 / Li Qingsheng, 连圣德 / Lian Shengde, 张盛全 / Zhang Shengquan, 余胜华 / Yu Shenghua, and 王良生 / Wang Liangsheng search results are name-order noise; all different persons.
Evidentiary limitations
The formal charge and the serving facility for the 2024 four-year sentence are not publicly confirmed; the profile preserves that gap rather than guessing. No official court judgment or state-media coverage has been located. No family interviews have been located. No consular or diplomatic dimension applies.
Person profile: 盛丽 (Sheng Li)